The Battle of Newburn, sometimes known as Newburn Ford, was fought on 28 August 1640 during the Second Bishops' War between a Scottish Covenanter army led by General Alexander Leslie and English forces commanded by Edward, Lord Conway. Conway, heavi…
The Battle of Nantwich was fought during the First English Civil War, between the Parliamentarians and Royalists, northwest of the town of Nantwich in Cheshire on 25 January 1644. The Royalists under Lord Byron were besieging Nantwich, and Sir Thoma…
The naval Battle of Goodwin Sands (also known as the Battle of Dover), fought on 19 May 1652 (29 May 1652 Gregorian calendar), was the first engagement of the First Anglo-Dutch War between the navies of the Commonwealth of England and the United Pro…
The Battle of Gainsborough was a battle in the English Civil War, fought on 28 July 1643.
The Battle of Bothwell Bridge, or Bothwell Brig, took place on 22 June 1679. It was fought between government troops and militant Presbyterian Covenanters, and signalled the end of their brief rebellion. The battle took place at the bridge over the …
The Battle of Benburb took place on 5 June 1646 during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the forces of Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill and a Scottish Covenanter and Angl…
The Battle of Arfderydd (also known as Arderydd) was fought, according to the Annales Cambriae, in 573. The opposing armies are variously given in a number of Old Welsh sources, perhaps suggesting a number of allied armies were involved. The main ad…
The Battle of Alnwick (1174) is one of two battles fought near the town of Alnwick, in Northumberland, England.
Baskerville House, previously called the Civic Centre, is a former civic building in Centenary Square, Birmingham, England.
The Barnsley Public Hall disaster was a stampede that took place on Saturday 11 January 1908, in a public hall in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, which resulted in the deaths of sixteen children. A number of children were entering the P…
Balvenie Castle is a ruined castle near Dufftown in the Moray region of Scotland.
The Balti Triangle is an area of Balti houses clustered along Ladypool Road, Stoney Lane and Stratford Road, to the south of Birmingham city centre, in the United Kingdom.
Ballindalloch (Scottish Gaelic: Baile na Dalach) is a small village on the River Spey in Scotland.
A balancing lake (also "flood basin") is a term used in the U.K. describing an element of an urban drainage system used to control flooding by temporarily storing flood waters.
BUNAC is a company that sells various programs that allow the participant to work, volunteer, or intern overseas.
BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC Local Radio service for the county of Lancashire, in North West England.
BBC Radio Derby is the BBC Local Radio station for the English county of Derbyshire, covering all but the northern tip of the county, and also serves eastern Staffordshire, mainly Uttoxeter and Burton upon Trent. The station broadcasts from its stud…
The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional bomb attack carried out on 1 May 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint. The IRA's South Armagh Brigade fitted a van with wheels…
Askham Bryan College is a specialist landbased college based in Askham Bryan, York, England.
Aske Hall is a Georgian country house, with parkland attributed to Capability Brown, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. It contains an impressive collection of 18th-century furniture, paintings and porcelain, and in its …
Ashchurch for Tewkesbury is a railway station serving the North Gloucestershire & South Worcestershire Area from near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The station is located less than 1⁄4 mile (400 m) from junction 9 of the M5 motorway and lo…
Aran Fawddwy is a mountain in southern Snowdonia, Wales, United Kingdom. It is the only peak in Wales outside of North Snowdonia above 900m. The nearest urban centres to the mountain are Dinas Mawddwy to the south, Llanymawddwy to the southeast, Lla…
Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, England, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was about 6,000 at the 2001 census although this is likely to have increased. The village is separated from Leicester b…
The Diocese of Worcester forms part of the Church of England (Anglican) Province of Canterbury in England.
Amounderness was a hundred of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds. In the Domesday book, it was used for some territories north of the River Ribble included together with parts of Yorkshire. But the ar…
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre is a museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England.
Alexandra Palace railway station (Muswell Hill branch) is a former station in the grounds of Alexandra Palace in the Muswell Hill area of north London.
Air Algérie/Phoenix Flight 702P, ship name Oasis, registration 7T-VEE, was a Boeing 737 owned by Air Algérie and leased by Phoenix Aviation which crashed on 21 December 1994 near Coventry Airport, England.
Saint Ailbe (Irish pronunciation: [ˈalʲvʲə]; Latin: Albeus), also known as Saint Elvis (Welsh: Eilfyw or Eilfw), was a 6th-century Irish bishop, confessor, and saint.
Charrington Brewery was a brewery company founded in Bethnal Green, London in the early 1700s by Robert Westfield. In 1766, John Charrington joined the company, which then traded as Westfield, Moss & Charrington from the Anchor Brewery in Mile End. …
Aberdeen Castle was a late Middle Ages fortification, in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The A75 is a Primary Trunk Road in Scotland, linking Stranraer and its ferry ports at Cairnryan with the A74(M) at Gretna, close to the Border with England and the M6 Motorway.
The A44 is a major road in the United Kingdom that runs from Oxford in southern England to Aberystwyth in west Wales.
The A167 is a road in North East England.
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Rock FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Lancashire, North West England and some parts of North Wales. Its output is mainly contemporary pop and current chart hits. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part o…